Were you nervous your first time? (Modifying/changing your doll, that is.)

I am a bit scared, but I plan to someday get a Zaoll Luv and mod it's body so that it's a boy, rather than girl. Of course it's a bit scary, but I've seen people do it before and it assures me enough that I'll be able to do it, even if I've never modded a doll before. Sure, there's a chance I could mess up, but I'll be really careful so that something bad hopefully doesn't happen. Regardless of unsettled nerves and negative 'what-if's, I'm still pretty excited about the thought of someday finally getting my dream doll.

 

I was a little nervous when I started working on my boy, but the nerves were gone about 30 seconds after I started sanding. I'm pretty sure of my sanding skills though, so it's probably just experience that made it easier for me.

 

I was quite nervous when removing my first doll's face up. But it had to be done since his old face up from DoD was breaking down ;_; Since then, it was a breeze, though. No qualms of unstringing him for the first time since my friend who's more experienced helped me a lot with it.

 

i'm frightened by the thought of a full body re-stringing XD let alone sanding or piercing anything! O.o

 

Never modded anything on my doll but her wig and outfit. I'm too scared!
If I should get another doll though, I've resolved to be more adventurous with it ^^

 

The first thing I ever did as far as modifying was concerned was modding the eyes of my limited Juri '05... and I wasn't nervous at all, actually (which I found quite surprising at the time, but planning out what I wanted to do and then going through it slowly and steadily worked wonders) Nowadays I know what I can do - sanding, restringing, wig modifications etc - and what I can't - faceups, mainly! - and do the things in the first category without any worry at all. Those in the latter category get left to the experts, and so I don't need to be nervous there at all either

 

Omg, I used to be so nervous about even taking my doll's headcap off to do things like adjust his eyes. xD
I got this t-shirt for him that required me to take his head right off to put it on because the neck hole was tiny and it had no buttons or anything, and I freaked out so much and was so nervous, haha.

I don't have a problem with those things now, though. All that's left for me to be nervous about is restringing. I've never restrung a doll before but my boy needs it badly.. I'm considering finding an expert to do it because I don't trust myself. xD

I havent considered doing any kind of serious modifying to a doll, although I do want to body blush my boy, and I'm kind of nervous about that because I've never painted on resin before. xD; I'm so afraid to mess it up.

 

The first night I had Euphemia, her head fell off and landed in my then-drunk stepmother's lap, who started screaming bloody mercy. (xD;;; ) So I had to learn pretty quickly that as long as you were smart about common-sense things, there really isn't much you can do to these dolls assembly-wise that can't be fixed easily. So I had no qualms popping her head off and unstringing her for a faceup/body blushing, though the first time I tried to restring her I couldn't. (Darn you, Iplehouse, for knotting the elastic on the S-hook, and darn you too-thick Volks elastic! D: ) Anyhow, that was quickly remedied by a trip to the craft store, which is amazing.
On the sanding note, if seperating fingers counts, I did Euphemia's left hand while I was doing her body blushing. I was just too tired by the time I got to the right hand to finish. xD;;

 

I remembered the first time when I want to give my Kal a fresh coat of MSC (poor boy sealant has worn off after nearly 7 months), I was clueless and not really sure how to properly spray his body in equal measures, scared I might screw up and sprayed too much and damage the resin >.>
yeah, I was hopeless...

Luckily for me, my dad gave me a hand (he had experience spraying gloss sealants on his bike so a doll was not a problem for him), and I must admit he did a perfect job of it!

I have yet to do a full body re-stringing, might give it a go one of this days, and I'm really keen to try my own face-ups as well!

Modding? er... too soon to say ^^''

 

heheheh
I was really scared of touching it in the first month thinking I might brake it XD
But then I really enjoyed making face-ups and mods :3 And now I thinking about doing things bolder and bolder, But now I need to be careful not to go too much on it hehehe

 

The first time I had to do any restringing I was terrified.
It was only arms though (fixing twisted elastic); There was lots of 'OMG I'm pulling so hard, i'm going to break her!' thoughts.
Though it did mean I wasn't so nervous when it came to do a full dismantle and restring for the first time.

I think alot of it is 'first <blah>' nerves, especialy when you are new to the hobby. After all its all well and good reading about something, but actualy doing it is another matter. I was nervous dressing one for the first time.

 

Changing my JID's hands was so frightening... Especially when his stringing slipped and shot up his arm while I had my head turned away. It turned out fine in the end but I was sort of panicked the whole time!

 

Was I scared? Oh god yes! XD My first doll, Mikos, had a wonky eye for the first 6months I had him becuase I was scared to even take the headcap off and poke at it!

My nerves were not made any better by Mikos pinging his s-hook at me and giving me a black eye the first time I opened his head, either!

Modding dolls is always a bit nerve-wracking, but once you get down to it it's great fun. I did a full body and head mod on a Juri 05 years ago, and it was fantasticly good fun once I got the hang of what I was doing. More recently, I did a face-up for my Minimee head that came out much better than I was expecting, but even though I knew I couldn't damage the head with what I was using, I was still nervous before I layed that first brush to the resin...

 

Wow, great thread. Yes, I was very edgy changing heads. I think the head I have on now is not correctly attached cause it keeps falling off. The head has a "S" ring that fits into a 'X" slot. I don't think it's placed in the X right. Will try again when I get the courage and strength to pull that "S" ring again.

 

Well, the only reason i'm scared to customize Lucien is because i know i may want to sell him later in trade for another mold, and i'm scared that if i mod him then try to sell him, people won't buy him. Can i get some reassurance here? XD

 

My only advice is to practice on an inexpensive and easily replaceable head before attacking the rare and limited.

 

I was too scared to mod my dolls at first, I had to be very careful. But I think I overcame that fear after a couple of mods.

 

I was nervous putting eyelashes on my doll... I'm not quite up there for modifications, yet. XD I do want to give Casimir's nails that "realistic" makeover, though. ^^ Of course, there's a great tutorial for that on DOA so I'm not totally worried. >w<

 

I was nervous with the dolls that came with face ups, but ordering dolls that didn't have the option of a company face up freed me to try new things. After blushing a girl green to be a Romulan, I have ordered apoxie sculpt to try a bust mod on my incoming girl.

 

I got Carousel specifically to be turned into what I had in my head. When I was looking for the right sculpt to bring home for my first doll, I was considering eye mods. Coming blank meant I wasn't too worried about practicing blushing and face ups on him. Then he broke a finger, and I decided to leave it, so out came the nail file to smooth off the rough edges. Now I'm sanding parts of him to be dyed. When I got him, I fixed it in my mind that he was my doll, and really no matter what I did to him either I, or someone with more experience than me, could fix it. (it's pretty near true, honestly).